Church of the Assumption of Our Lady - an ancient temple city in Asenovgrad, best known from ancient times. Over a long period of repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt.

The first time the temple destroyed in 1189 the Crusaders Frederick Barbarossa and ten years later, when the Bulgarian ruler Ivan Asen I, began to rebuild the temple. Soon, however, the church was once again destroyed. Rebuild its citizens under Ivan Asen II. Renewed Temple again did not last long - only until 1600, when it was destroyed by the Turkish military detachment under the leadership of Hasan hodzhoya.

In 1765, Dimo ​​Georgiev and Georgi Dimov, residents of the nearby town of Kostur, traveled to Constantinople to procure permission for the reconstruction of the destroyed temple. The congregation at that time put candles directly on the ruins. As a result, the church was rebuilt in the same year. Two images (Holy Mother of God and of Christ the Savior Elsusy) and a corporal were brought from Mount Athos, where the Vatopedi Monastery.

Work on the reconstruction of the temple of the iconostasis were made in 1811. The iconostasis was made by master wood carvers Kosta Kolev and Costa Masikovym, they took it for ten years. Wizards also cut on the gate of the royal lion with a scepter - the old coat of arms of Bulgaria. Above the northern gate appeared waking lion with an ax in a mighty legs and over the South - lion, which crushes the coffin and removes from him dead. Church icons were written by Hristo Dimitrov and his sons - Demetrius and Zahari Zograf.

The church today is equipped museum, which stores the old icons, church utensils and liturgical vessels. There was a place for old books, among whom was Irmologion, dated 1825, as well as many engravings of the Rila Monastery and icons from Mount Athos.